The wide compass of health touches the law at many points. The law of negligence, for example, encourages careful conduct where the pub? lic's health and safety are at stake. Medical malpractice and products liability bring courts face to face with the behavior of doctors, hospitals, and pharmaceutical companies. Courts are called upon to correct un? healthy conditions in prisons and mental hospitals. They restrict poten? tially dangerous uses of real property through the law of nuisance. Even contracts involve the court in health issues. Most law students begin their study of contracts with the case of Hawkins v. McGee. There, a doctor guaranteed to restore his patient's burned hand to 100 percent perfection through the new technique of skin grafting. Unfortunately, Dr. McGee grafted skin from the patient's chest and produced a hairy hand instead. Hawkins recovered the differ? ence in value between a perfect hand and a hairy hand, an amount set by the jury. The hapless doctor also lost his suit against his insurer. The insurer had agreed to cover only medical mistakes, not broken promises.